Blog posts by Dave Greenberg

The team is excited to announce the release of CiviCRM 3.3.5 - it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site. Apart from fixing a few bug issues, this release contains two critical security updates:

Cross site scripting problem, where the site can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript. Permissioning vulnerability, which allowed anonymous users to potentially change information for another contact.

 

Please consider doing an upgrade as soon as possible to avoid potential security risks. If you have already upgraded using the 3.3.4 release package - and you did not experience any errors during the upgrade - then you already have the security patches installed and you do not have to upgrade to this release at this time.

A few months back we introduced the newly revamped and automated Professional Services listings. The listings are divided into two categories - Active Contributors, and Additional Organizations. We've had a few queries on how organizations get assigned to these categories.

Here are some criteria that come into play when we decide where to place an organization. We tend to look at activity for the past six months and give that a lot more weight.

 

CiviCon 2011 is shaping up to be an awesome event. The session line-up includes exciting case studies, CiviMail best practices for implementors, security session for developers, "ask the experts" panel and lots more.

March 7, 12 noon - 6pm After party 6pm - whenever! TechNexus - 200 S. Wacker Drive (in downtown Chicago)

Check out / register for these upcoming NYC civi-happenings.

Configuring and Using CiviCRM - January 19-20 CiviCRM NYC Meetup January 20

 

Some great news to kick off 2011...

Each month, a project is chosen from the many thousands on SourceForge.net to be their Project of the Month (POM). This month's POM is ... drum roll please ... CiviCRM.

Many folks (including me) are occassionally (or even frequently) frustrated in our ability to find answers to our CiviCRM questions. It may be:

finding a particular page on the Wiki that documents a feature finding forum posts that might have answers to a tech support problem finding a blog post that covers a new / unique way to implement a custom extension ... and on and on

We had a lively meetup on Tuesday at Wikimedia Foundation HQ in San Francisco. There was pretty cool mix of organizations represented: board member and director from a "start-up" independent middle school looking to use CiviCRM and Drupal to support their vision of student - teacher - administration - parent collaboration IT folks from an association of psychoanalysts - looking to implement CiviCRM and Drupal for fund-raising and events two new developers from Wikimedia Foundation - looking towards making CiviCRM a more effective tool for their users The focus of the meeting was review and Q/A on the upcoming 3.2 release. I walked through a slideshow of highlights - and we took frequent detours to my sandbox to dig deeper into features when folks had questions. I've been thinking that we've taken some big steps in usability and "polish" in 3.2 - and the reactions during the meetup reinforced this.